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  • Chapter 12 - Diasporic Afterlives

  • Edited by Malcolm Sen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Julie McCormick Weng, Texas State University
  • Book:
    Race in Irish Literature and Culture
    Published online:
    04 January 2024
    Print publication:
    18 January 2024, pp 242-258

  • Summary

    The title of this essay references two provocative discourses in contemporary critical conversation, both of which inform my reading of Ruth Gilligan’s extraordinary novel, Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan (2016). “Afterlives” alludes to Paige Reynolds’ Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture (2016), a volume that explores how the “themes, forms and practices of high modernism are manifest in Irish literature and culture produced subsequent to that cultural movement.” Following Reynolds’ lead, this essay expands the idea of “afterlives” to include “diaspora” and “race” while constructing an archive of Irish–Jewish texts, both fictive and academic, for a novel that concerns the intersections of Irish and Jewish characters at three historical moments: the inaugural decade of the twentieth century, the years during and after World War II, and the fall of the Celtic Tiger economy in the present century.